Explain the following design matrix with suitable example.

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a) Time to market

b) The performance
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a) Time to market :

  • Time to market is the time from development of an embedded system to sell it to customers is called time to market.
  •  For more profit, the time to market should be less for embedded systems.
  • A delay in product development cause large revenue loss.
  • The figure shows the losses due to delayed entry.


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b) Performance :

Latency and throughput are the two main measures of performance.


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